vintage
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110-Year-Old Electric Car Sells For $135,000
Teslas might be ‘practical’ and ‘fast’ and other useful things, but they’re also a little nouveau riche. If you want real electric-car class, you’ve got to hark back to 1905, and this very expensive vintage golf cart.
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Watching The World’s First Hyperlapse Video From 1995 Is Mind Blowing
Hyperlapses aren’t anything new these days, even your phone can do them. But back in 1995, no one knew what the hell a hyperlapse was (the term was coined in 2012) so imagine the collective mind melting and freakout that happened when this video was shown off in 1995. It was shot on a 16mm…
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Train Etiquette Posters From 1970s Japan Are Just As Relevant Today
Don’t smoke in the train station. Don’t spit your gum on the floor. And please don’t splay your legs out like no one else is around you. These sound like basic rules of today’s public transport, but they’re actually messages that graced the walls of Tokyo’s subway 40 years ago.
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Severe Cold War Cameras Make Funky Lamps
These days, camera talk is all Canon-Nikon-Sony. During the Cold War, Zenit and Praktica ruled the lightwaves in Russia and East Germany respectively. These repurposed vintage models pay homage to that history while brightening up a dark corner in your living room.